Extracts from speeches and writings of Scholars on Islamic Spirituality and Purification of the Soul!

Saturday, June 18, 2016

How to repel doubts- Ibn Taymiyyah

Imam Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyyah writes,

“Shaykh Al-Islam (Ibn Taymiyyah), God be pleased with him, said to me, when I presented to him one objection (îrâd) after another,

‘Do not make your heart like a sponge for objections and doubts, such that it cannot ripen but with them, but rather like polished glass, so doubts may pass over its surface but do not stay within: its purity makes you see them, and its firmness allows you to repel them’.

Or something to this effect. I do not know of any other advice that has helped me repel doubts like this one”.